The Geomancer

6/12/12

Planesrunner nominated for Sidewise Award

Posted by
Lou Anders

This year's nominees for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History have just been announced. We are very excited to find Ian McDonald's Planesrunner, one of our first young adult offerings, nominated in the category of Alternate History, Long Form.
The winners will be announced at Chicon 7, this year's Worldcon, in
Chicago, Illinois during the weekend of August 30. This year's panel of judges was made up of Stephen
Baxter, Evelyn Leeper, Jim Rittenhouse, Stu Shiffman, Kurt Sidaway, and
Steven H Silver.

The Sidewise Awards for Alternate History were
conceived in late 1995 to honor the best allohistorical genre
publications of the year. The first awards were announced in summer 1996
and honored works from 1995. The award takes its
name from Murray Leinster's 1934 short story "Sidewise in Time," in
which a strange storm causes portions of Earth to swap places with their
analogs from other timelines.